Remove featured image expand in posts

what kind of image you like to show – a non cropped – but smaller image?
you can set a max-width now for that full image.
it all depends on what you have set for blog layout and what to show on “Single Post Style” !
without seeing your page it is hard to give better advice
f.e.:

#top.postid-45175 .template-single-blog main .wp-post-image {
  position:relative;
  max-width:calc(100% - 250px);
  left:125px;
  min-width:unset !important;
  margin-bottom:50px
}

it all depends on what you have set for blog layout and what to show on “Single Post Style” !
without seeing your page it is hard to give better advice

this is my test page – with code from above:
https://webers-testseite.de/standard-post/

i switched to elegant and “Single Post with big preview image”:

same code works !

yes you are right – the snippet turns the sequence to first image then titel.
Besides the css of setting only the pointer-events to none.:

#top .template-single-blog main .big-preview.single-big a {
  pointer-events: none !important;
}

there must be a hampering method to avoid generation of that link

By the way – this is not meant to be a solution! – Maybe Günter can implement a filter on that or ;) insert an option on the Single Post Style. ( with lightbox link / without link )

:lol: sorry for us-english ( behavior – behaviour)

Yes – but on seo reasons it might be better to Not have a link here instead of hampering the Event.

and if i do want to have that on all single posts – i can use ?

add_filter( 'avf_post_ingnore_featured_image_link', '__return_true' );

and if i want to use an array of post id’s – is that the correct way?

function custom_avf_post_ingnore_featured_image_link( $ignore_image_links = false, array $current_post = [] ){
  //  e.g. available variables
  global $avia_config, $post_loop_count;

  //  e.g. remove link for posts:
  $postIDs = [ 36011, 45175 ];

  $ignore_image_links = in_array( $current_post['the_id'], $postIDs ) ? true : false;
  return $ignore_image_links;
}
add_filter( 'avf_post_ingnore_featured_image_link', 'custom_avf_post_ingnore_featured_image_link', 10, 2 );

many thanks !

this should work too on category basis:

function custom_avf_post_ingnore_featured_image_link( $ignore_image_links ){
  //  e.g. available variables
  global $avia_config, $post_loop_count;

  //  no image links on posts inside a given category 
  $ignore_image_links = in_category( array( 1, 'grafik' ) ) ? true : false;
  return $ignore_image_links;
}
add_filter( 'avf_post_ingnore_featured_image_link', 'custom_avf_post_ingnore_featured_image_link', 10, 1 );